English literature: reference sources

This is a selective list of reference sources on the subject of English and American literature available in the Humanities Reading Room. Electronic resources can be accessed in the Electronic Resources Room in both Humanities 1 and 2. The shelfmark of each printed item is given at the end of every citation.

Entries from The Oxford companion to English literature 5th edn. Oxford, 1995 and from The Bloomsbury dictionary of English literature London, 1997 (not listed above) can be searched on Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus).

From 1973 onwards the index for the TLS is included in the Times Index at HUR072.1The TLS Centenary Archive is available online onsite only. It provides a fully searchable database of all articles up to 1990 and also includes a contributors database.

W. Matthews, British diaries: an annotated bibliography of British diaries written between 1441 and 1942. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1950.